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B-281600 1 (1999-03-08)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptajhk0001 and id is 1 raw text is: oComptroller General of the United States Washington, D.C. 20548 Decision Matter of: Interproperty Investments, Inc. File: B-281600 Date: March 8, 1999 W. Blaine Early, III, Esq., Stites & Harbison, for the protester. Gary W. Napier, Esq., and Jill Osborne Edwards, Esq., Napier, Reece & Associates, for Bimble, an intervenor. John C. Ringhausen, Esq., General Services Administration, for the agency. C. Douglas McArthur, Esq., and Michael R. Golden, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Where agency advertised requirement for lease space in two local newspapers, as prescribed in General Service Administration regulations, and denies any deliberate attempt to exclude protester from competing, its failure to solicit incumbent lessor does not warrant sustaining protest, where agency otherwise obtained full and open competition and a reasonable price. DECISION Interproperty Investments, Inc. protests the award of a contract to Bimble under solicitation for offers (SFO) No. 7KY0036, issued by the Southeast Sunbelt Region of the General Services Administration (GSA). Interproperty asserts that the agency deliberately excluded Interproperty, the incumbent lessor, from the competition. We deny the protest. The protester currently leases some 13,000 square feet of office space to the Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA). In late 1996, the agency issued a SFO for a new lease (17,575 square feet), to which the protester responded; the agency subsequently canceled the solicitation because MSHA was undergoing a reorganization, which made its requirements uncertain. Letter from MSHA to Contracting Officer (Apr. 23, 1997). The protester did not object, in view of the agency's decision to extend the existing lease for another year, with two 1-year option periods. Affidavit of Gregory Parsons, Nov. 25, 1997, at 2. In January 1998, MSHA submitted a new request to lease 17,035 square feet of office space in the Barbourville, Kentucky area. The agency placed advertisements in the February 5 Mountain Advocate, a local Barbourville paper, and in the Sunday, February 8 Cincinnati Enquirer, which circulates in northern Kentucky. The

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